Monthly Archives: May 2014

This is from the Copperopolis project over the river. There will be a White Rock exhibition, and John Ashley will give a short talk along with the Maesydderwen School project. Rob Hulme and Brian Perrins will lead walks of the White Rock site. Download details of the day – Hafod morfa copperworks festival june 14 2014 flyer.

“We are entering the final few months of the current development project at Hafod-Morfa Copperworks and think we need to celebrate!

“We are planning an event on 14th June from 1pm to 5pm and we hope you can join us to celebrate the work completed over the last 18 months and breathe life back into the site.

“There will be performance, children’s entertainment, guided tours, workshops, copper making demonstrations, digital interpretation demonstrations, community films and talks. We hope it will offer fun, learning and inspiration.

“We have invited schools and history societies to perform and showcase work completed as part of projects such as the connected communities project. If you are involved in a group and would like to perform/contribute, then please get in touch.”

A brief look, but with the emphasis on science, at the life and times of Richard Price a prominent eighteenth century dissenter, political and social reformer, founder of life assurance through his work on publishing Bayes’s Theorem on probability, and a supporter of the American revolution and the opening events of that in France. If time permits the talk will also look briefly at the scientific and political lives of his Bridgend nephews William Morgan (winner of the Royal Society Copley Medal, producer of plasmas) and George Cadogan Morgan (writer on electricity and radical republican at a dangerous time).

John Ashley will give a talk on White Rock – A Community Project and Many Mysteries to Blackpill History Society on Tuesday 20 May at the Vivian Hall, 10.00am for 10.30 start. Several of the team will also attend with displays.

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